Why Doesn’t Acid Hurt the Naked Mole Rat?

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Robin Moroney

Jan 29, 2008 6:32 pm ET

The naked mole rat is highly sensitive to touch, but when it comes to chili peppers or acid, the hairless, sausage-like creatures are immune to the sting. That resistance has raised hopes that the animals might hold clues about how to treat chronic pain in humans, reports Charles Q. Choi in LiveScience.com. Found in oxygen-starved […]